The Origins of the Second World War (Seminar Studies in History Series)
By: Richard Overy
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A new edition of this popular study which offers broad analysis of the complex events leading to Wo…
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
By: Mike Rapport
3.74
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on Eur… read more
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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
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4. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
5. Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Michael Walzer , George J. Becker
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
With a new preface by Michael Walzer Jean-Paul Sartre's book is a brilliant portrait of both anti-S… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. Running in the Family
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey th… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Cold War: A History
By: Martin Walker
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The history of the Cold War has been the history of the world since 1954." So begins this wide-ran… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
8. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Graham T. Allison , None , Philip Zelikow
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
"Essence of Decision" is both a vivid account of a crucial international event and a breakthrough i… read more
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- international relations
- history
- politics
- military fiction
- nonfiction
9. Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #7)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.10
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in P… read more
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10. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
By: Robert Fisk
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an awa… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
11. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. The Origins of the First World War
By: Gordon Martel , James Joll
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ign… read more
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13. The Third Man & The Fallen Idol
By: Graham Greene
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occup… read more
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14. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #8)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.07
Format: 253 pages,
THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 8 Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladie… read more
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15. To Hell and Back
By: Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy
4.25
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in … read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
"Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
"Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever sha…"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
"Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with t…"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
16. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
17. Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
By: John A. Nagl , David Galula
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Er… read more
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18. The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-08
By: Bob Woodward
3.00
Format: None pages,
Bob Woodward once again pulls back the curtain on Washington to reveal the inner workings of a gove… read more
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19. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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20. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
By: Michael Walzer
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the … read more
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21. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
By: Nora Seligman Favorov , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin… read more
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22. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb
4.02
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more
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"Homo homini monstrum"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"Oh! Everything I loved!"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
23. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.57
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
24. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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25. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
26. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
27. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
28. Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare
By: Seth G. Jones
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns tha… read more
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- international relations
- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
29. The Origins of the Second World War (Seminar Studies in History Series)
By: Richard Overy
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A new edition of this popular study which offers broad analysis of the complex events leading to Wo… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
30. Tobruk 1941: Rommel's Opening Move
By: John Latimer
3.53
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwi… read more
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